"Some people seem to think guns are to blame for these murders. Not only did Holmes reportedly gas his victims, but his apartment is completely rigged with explosives. Now tell me, did his guns set up explosives and throw tear gas at his victims, too - or did he?"

"Mass shootings can be stopped. People need to arm themselves with the facts (and with weapons). If one law-abiding person in the theater had been carrying a gun, lives could have been saved."

No anti-gun law will ever stop crime or violence. People who are going to commit a crime do not use legal registered guns.
We have drunk driving laws, but yet people are still killed by drunk drivers.
We have laws against illegal drugs, but people still use illegal drugs.
We have laws against bank robbing, but banks are still being robbed.
The only way to help prevent gun violence is to allow all law abiding citizens to caryy concealed guns. A criminal will be less likely to commit a crime if they don't know who is armed and who isn't.
When there was a vigilante loose in the New York City Subway System, crime dropped down to next to nothing. When Bernard Getz came forward as the shooter, crime went through the roof again.

Guns don't shoot themselves, people shoot guns. All of the gun laws in the world would not stop a person from using a gun as a tool, just like they use a car, hammer, sword, knife, or any other tool they wish to use to kill somebody with. A criminal will not allow a law of any type to stop them from harming people if they so desire to. This is a simple fact of life.

Laws don't stop abnormal people from doing abnormal things. When that man decided on a plan for his shooting spree, no law would stop him. Laws appear to only work on law abiding people, lawbreakers think that laws are just suggestions. The more laws we seem to put in place, the more crime goes up, at least that's how it seems to me. It starts out a very young age. Remember whenever your parents told you not to do something, and sure enough, that was the one thing you just had to do.

Face it. No matter how strict gun laws are, they will NEVER prevent shootings like this. They will never stop criminals from committing crimes. They will never stop evil scumbags from shooting up schoolyards, shopping malls and movie theaters. They will only stop one type of person, a law-abiding citizen from saving his/her own life or the lives of their loved one.

None of the above! - I'm not "undecided," either, because I'm pretty sure I know the answer. He was an honor student majoring in psychology with no criminal record or history of significant mental illness. What about his history should have been a huge red flag?

There are no gun laws that can entirely stop violence. The only thing
strict gun laws does is to prevent honest citizens from protecting
themselves. There will always be violence of this kind until all
humans learn to love and respect all mn & women.

There are so many guns in this country now, that a law on the books, similar to most laws, won't deter a maniacal monster from killing, robbing, or rampaging. My heart goes out to the dead and their families, and the wounded and their families.

Just as it is impossible to keep drugs out of an addict, It is impossible to keep guns from a determined killer. Laws may make it more difficult, but someone bent on murder, especially mass murder, will find away.

These kinds of shootouts happen because yes, we have maniacs living in our societies too. And we can keep pointing fingers and playing the blame game, but in reality, the only one we have to blame are the people who snapped and decided to commit these horrible crimes. But if they happen often, we ought to look into the social factors behind these actions in order to see how we can better society and lessen this kind violence. But sometimes, people are gonna go insane, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you're reading this message from your laptop while sitting comfortably at home, at least you know that you're living much safer than most of the world is at the moment.

In comparison to Germany and Japan and most of the world, it does have low gun control. It's easier to get guns in US than most places, for both civilians and criminals. Many states allow you to carry, some states are stricter, but overall it's quite easy to get the guns across state boarders.

Tougher laws never prevent crime. If people are evil, or mentally I'll, or have no respect for their fellow man, they will break the law no matter how strict the law is. Take away guns, they use knives, take away knives they use bombs or clubs, take away those... They will find something else to use as a weapon.